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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1969
Page
20
In a Berkshire essay, the author recalls visiting Washington, DC, noting that it rivals other American cities in crowds and sites yet now suffers urban blight. The piece compares long vistas to ordinary streets and hints at city decay amid a reflective travelogue.
The Gandhi centennial service at Washington Cathedral drew over 2,000 people reflecting Gandhi’s universal message. Indian Embassy performers joined Episcopal choirboys with readings from multiple faiths, and Ravi Shankar led a sitar concerto. The event noted Gandhi’s ideals of love, equality, and nonviolence amidst Hindu Muslim tensions. Robert H. Finch warned of rising environmental waste as a future concern over the next decade.
In Bonn, the forming of a Social Democrat Free Democrat coalition signals West Germany’s first peaceful change of government. Willy Brandt, hesitant at first, is pushed into leadership by Karl Schiller amid party doubts and a fragile 254 of 496 Bundestag seats. The bloc faces opposition from the Christian Democrats and Free Democrats tied to business and agricultural interests, while the new government eyes cautious policy moves domestically and in Europe, with early steps on nonproliferation and relations with France.
The 1969 New York Times piece reviews the funding crisis of privately financed Negro colleges, with Miles College and Spelman cited. It notes about 128 black colleges, half private, many near collapse, brain drain, and calls for direct federal aid while warning that better schools recruit away talent. The article frames the struggle as a broader effect of reform and Afro-American studies.
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